The Olympic torch relay has become a huge tradition over the past 100 years or so, since the first relay before the 1928 ...

Sports diplomacy shows path forward as North Korean and South Korean athletes demonstrated unity at 2018 Winter Olympics amid ...

Davidson College Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Allison Smith examines the "distant echoes" of the original Olympic Games and how they compare to the modern global competition. The ...

U.S. Nordic combined athlete Annika Malacinski is leading the fight for gender equality at the Winter Olympics after women ...

New Zealand has a team of 17 athletes competing in snowboarding, freestyle skiing and alpine skiing over the next two weeks.

Ayodhya is not just a city—it is living history. From the Vedic period and Ramayana to ancient Greek, Buddhist, and Jain records, this short documentary reveals why Ayodhya existed even before history ...

Forget medals. Ancient Greek athletes fought for olive wreaths, immortality, and survival. Behind the glory were brutal ...

The first modern Olympic truce, during the 1994 Winter Games in Lillehammer, Norway, did produce a one-day pause in the siege ...

The Milan Cortina Winter Olympics are just one week away and United Nations and Games organizers are urging a 7-week global ...

Professor of Sport Studies Amy Bass joins WIRED to answers the internet's burning questions about the history of the Olympics. When were the first olympics contested? How do the olympic games of ...

Like their modern counterparts, ancient Greek athletes used a variety of methods to train for events. Credit: After Myron / Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 Even to this day, the legacy of ancient Greek ...

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Tom Brady stood on the basketball court at Intuit Dome as Aaron Donald, Travis Scott, James Harden and Hailey Bieber mingled nearby Tuesday night, part of a ...